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October 17th, 2011
This is my second year working in SED. I’ve really enjoyed the environment, except for one important thing; it rains inside. The Instructional Materials Center (IMC), for example, serves as …
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Books, quite frankly, are awesome. They are doorways to other worlds; they are reservoirs of knowledge. They are almost always better than the movie. The Boston Book Festival (BBF) was …
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In 2003, Boston University became one of two universities to receive a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to construct a National Biocontainment Laboratory next …
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I love Netflix. How could I not? Well, there was that Qwikster thing, which is not a thing anymore, but really. Where else could I find The Cove, Angus, AND episodes of …
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Smartphone sales are set to eclipse PC sales by the end of 2011, according to Beyond the PC, an article in the October 8th edition of The Economist. The “Mobile …
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PETA has a long history of controversial advertisements. According to PETA.org, two of the organization’s most prominent strategies of getting its message across are public education and protest campaigns. These …
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I spent most of my last two days at the New York City Wine and Food Festival sitting in the The Dream Hotel in Chelsea. The lobby became the “Eater Blogger …
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Hurricane Irene may have put a damper on pumpkin crops, but Halloween is coming quick whether or not you are squash-ready. The holiday falls on a Monday this year, so …
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Weird is good sometimes. On Saturday night, “Weird Al” Yankovic, the frizzy-haired, accordion-toting champion of the world’s fanboys, rocked the Orpheum. Yankovic is currently on tour to promote his thirteenth …
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On that inevitable day of college graduation (which had suddenly emerged with a foggy foresight of how the coming days would ensue) I was at sea, like many others, in …
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